Brad Thompson from God's Garage shares insights on the charity's mission to provide reliable transportation to those in need. The discussion covers the vehicle donation process, the challenges of throughput in their new facility, and the importance of reliable cars for single mothers and military families. The episode also touches on the emotional aspects of car donations and the community impact of their work. Listeners will gain an understanding of how God's Garage operates and the difference it makes in people's lives.
Strap in, gearheads! We're taking a thrilling ride into the world of automobile donations with Brad Thompson from God's Garage. Prepare to be fascinated as we explore how these donations transform lives, while also navigating the latest in the automotive industry, from Volkswagen Jetta to BMW X5 recalls. We'll also delve into the extraordinary volunteer work that fuels God's Garage.
Brad walks us through the entire process, from moving cars swiftly through the shop to navigating taxation rules. You'll gain valuable insights into how state agencies play a part in the donation process, and how recipients avoid the burden of sales tax. Lastly, we'll uncover the mystery behind the titling process and the purpose of the 1098C form.
Be sure to join us to hear more about how your old beater can get a new life helping others create a new life.
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Welcome to another In Wheel Time podcast, a 30 minute mini version of the In Wheel Time car show that airs live every Saturday morning 8 to 11am, central Max, anywhere.
It's the In Wheel Time car talk show.
Coming up, Brad Thompson, and donating to a charity God's Garage.
There you go.
Later, a look at the automotive headlines.
We've got working for you this week Howdy along with Mike out of this world, mars King, codrad along, and we need more, jeff Zeekin, always.
I'm Don Armstrong, glad you could join us on this Saturday.
Let's just get right to it, shall we Joining us now from God's Garage, brad Thompson.
Brad's always good to see you, my friend.
How are you Great.
Yep, unmute your phone.
Yeah, I gotta unmute something there.
Why does it always go to mute?
I don't know.
Automatically he's not muted.
He's not muted, but we can't hear you, brad.
What the heck.
Maybe Donald turned it on.
No, it's on.
I don't know what the problem is Can't hear you, we cannot hear you Okay well, while you, guys are messing with all of that stuff.
I'm going to do some headlines here, actually, yeah, I'll do some headlines because we didn't really get too much on the headlines earlier and I think that we need to do that.
So let's do some recalls, shall we?
No warning when the key is left in the ignition on the Volkswagen Jetta for 2019.
Your car is being recalled, so BMW X5, x6, x7, xm for 2024 and 2023.
The front passenger knee airbag may not deploy.
Ouch, loose battery cables may cause a fire.
On the Alpha Romeo tonal for 2023 and 2024 and the Dodge Hornet for 2023 and 2023.
Help my toenails on fire.
Yeah, it's a fungus.
Ford, this is extra heavy duties F-150, f-650 and F-750,.
Unsecured transmission may cause a roll away.
Oh look, my transmission just fell out.
Oops, it's a problem.
My truck rolled away.
My big, huge truck rolled away.
Really Well.
I don't know, brad, are you there?
I hope so.
Now you are, I can hear him.
I'm here, but evidently I haven't made it over there yet.
We have got you now.
I know it's always good to be had.
It is, it's good to be seen, it's all that good stuff.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, it's good to see you again.
How are things going at God's garage?
Hey, really good, the new building's up and running.
We got all the bays occupied.
Now comes the hard part of trying to figure out how do you actually generate throughput through.
Now that you have all this capacity, you have to figure out how do we get these vehicles through here.
But we're still short on donated vehicles pretty heavily this year, which we kind of anticipated with what's going on in the market.
But I got a call last week or a week before from some guy named Jeff who said, hey, I've got this car.
So thanks, jeff, that was really nice.
You're welcome.
I think it was a Kathy's total plan.
She did it all from A to Z, not only in getting a new car that she wanted, but also getting you her car that obviously will help your endeavors there as well.
So it was all on her.
She did it all from A to Z, like I said, and she was very happy, very smooth process.
The only thing I did was reach out to you through Don, because I didn't have your number direct.
I gave you the number, I reached out to you and then let you two, you and Kathy, handle the rest of it for what you've got.
How does that work, brad?
Because I've actually never donated a car, because I've never had a car to donate.
It's always at the used car market and I'll donate it to that as long as I get something in exchange.
So how does the process work when you donate a car?
Well, we'll take that C6 whenever you're ready.
Well, as soon as I get one, because mine is a C5.
Oh yeah, that's right here's a C5.
Okay, yes, I blew that, didn't I?
So actually I was going to, since Jeff said he didn't do it.
I was going to have Jeff describe what it's like.
But essentially, you go to godsgarageorg, we have a donate your vehicle button.
You click the button, you fill out some information for us on the line?
What kind of information do you?
need Well, just the basics about the vehicle Year, make, model, color, mileage, the VIN.
You need to have a clear title, or the ability to clear the title, and our guys that come pick up the vehicle will make sure you've signed the title in the right place and we'll have a vehicle transfer form.
But you can actually schedule your vehicle pickup time on the website.
And a condition of the vehicle too, because she was asking me questions.
Well, what about this?
What about that?
The car is drivable, rough, very rough.
Probably pulled it up on the back of the rollback by itself, but minimal whiskey dents and things like that dings and stuff on the body.
What kind of car was?
it.
It's the Ford Fusion 2013 Ford Fusion, so it's a relatively new car for you?
Yes, it's a new car, 11 years old actually yeah.
Right.
Well, it's funny because Jeff told us it was running rough.
Man, we just reached in there and tightened a few spark plug wires and outruns.
Well, there you go, you're welcome.
Actually, I'm kidding.
I knew you were.
I warned Jeff I was going to do that, so you wanted to know the process.
So what happens is we get it scheduled.
We have volunteers that pick up pretty much all of our vehicles, and you know when we sugar lands is stretched for us, so I wasn't sure if I was gonna go do it, cause sometimes I'll do those on the weekend.
We have, you know, a few guys that drive commercial records.
That'll pick up stuff for us as well, but for the most part we drive a truck pulling a trailer with a winch on it and we have a.
They're two volunteer teams.
We have two, two different teams typically that run every day and they do a morning pickup and an afternoon pickup.
The morning pickups are way out in sugar land and the afternoon ones are close to Conroe.
So we get the vehicle back.
So we put the vehicle in a in a software system that that that we use.
That then is like our, like an electronic assembly line.
So once Jeff put his, his donation in, then that started moving through our assembly line and our first one is to get it scheduled, get it picked up.
After it comes back.
Those guys log the vehicle in into the system and then it moves that vehicle immediately to our first evaluation.
So the first eval is someone that can tell us do we want to donate this car, do we want to gift this car or do we want to salvage it?
Because unfortunately, more than half of the vehicles we get in we just can't fix.
A lot of them were.
You know, we're dragging them up on the trailer with tires that are half full of air.
So Jeff's is actually a really, really nice donated vehicle for us.
So that that was a big plus.
When he called me and said man, it's a 2013,.
I'm like I had a 2013.
Yeah, you're telling me that, yeah.
Yeah, I had a Ruby red.
One loved that car.
Well, this is actually Kathy's.
Jeff has nothing to do with this.
She's the one that prompted this and and suggested I want to do this.
She came to me and said I want to give it to God's garage, so I appreciate that.
But I don't know, kathy, so I'm probably going to continue to make that error.
But that's your job, jeff.
Good husband, absolutely so.
So once we get it evaluated, if it's a salvage vehicle, it just goes into a salvage queue.
We'll either run them over there's a auto auction two miles from us, over up in Conroe, america's auto auction.
They take all of our vehicles.
They do not charge us the auction fee, which is awesome.
So we run vehicles through the auction all the time over there.
If it's a vehicle we're going to gift or give away, then it'll go to a second evaluation that does a real thorough one about.
You know, do the power windows work?
Do all the lights work?
If it's got clear, you know engine codes.
We'll read those and figure out what we're going to fix.
So that's kind of starts the repair process.
And once we kind of know how that's going to work, then actually my brother who's might be watching this from Cozumel he goes to the title office.
He does all of our most pretty much all of our title runs.
So he'll go title the vehicle in our name and and Zeke, our Ike over at man.
I got a roadway, lou Plus he's down on South of Conroe I can specs all of our vehicles for free.
So every vehicle that we sent out and probably the last year and a half, two years, we haven't paid the inspection fee on because he just does all those for free for us.
So we get a lot of people that help us out with stuff like that to keep our costs down.
So once the vehicle gets to a stage where we know it's pretty close to the end of its repair cycle, justin, our executive director, will match that vehicle up to an applicant who has those needs.
So obviously if it's a single mom, we don't give her a two-seater car with a stick, we give her a four-door car or sometimes a minivan.
If she's got four kids, we try to get her something that she can get her whole family in, obviously.
So the applicants have already gone through a prioritization process and, like we always talk about, they go through life skills, training and stuff like that.
But on the vehicle side, justin will match those two up and then we have the visibility on a single screen to see if that vehicle's ready to be given away or not, because we can tell that everything's been done, it's been final QC, it's been detailed, we've taken all the easy tag stickers off of it all those kind of things.
Yeah, we did that.
So when do you?
Obviously you're gonna gift this car to an individual.
What is the timeframe by the time you know Kathy donated it to when you think possibly you could gift it?
Yeah, so we don't know with your car yet what the engine problems are.
So, we don't typically do internal engine work.
If it's something you know leaky valve cover, gaskets, the main seals, stuff, like we can do a lot of that stuff.
We've got a really a lot of talented guys with a normal car that we don't have to do a substantial amount of work.
It's still usually a couple months because there's almost always cars that are in the stage of being repaired.
The better the condition the car is, the less we have to do, the probably the faster it's going to be given away.
Have you ever done an engine swap on a car?
I think we did one a few years ago, just as kind of a test pilot.
We went and bought a.
Now, if I remember this right, justin will probably be saying no, we didn't do that.
But we, I think we bought a car in auction one time where the engine was good, transmission was bad.
So we, we swapped that.
And it may have been, we did the transmission.
But we don't do those very often at all.
They're just, they leave a car on a lift way too long.
You know, these days with the cars there's so many things that get connected and disconnected from those engines, it's so easy to miss something.
So plus you're you're working with volunteers.
So so if you've got volunteers, they get in the middle of an engine swap and all of a sudden they got to start working overtime at their real job, or right, you know different things and you've got one that's sitting up there and nobody knows what the real stage is.
So I can see where that would be a problem.
And the longer a time a car ties up a stall, the less productive the shop becomes, right and then I'm sorry.
Well and for you it's about workflow, Right?
You know you want all of these vehicles to flow through the shop within a reasonable amount of time, so jamming it up with some big job one time affects everybody behind it.
Yeah, exactly, oddly enough, back in way back when I used to teach some of the Justin time here's you talk about Justin time inventory stuff a while back but I used to teach Crosby quality.
Do you remember Crosby and Gerand and all those guys that took all the their quality initiatives over to Japan because the people in America wouldn't listen?
Yeah, and they and they still are listening.
Yeah, well, they're getting better, but but no, that's exactly it and you know.
So that's.
That's part of the.
The process we look at is you know, how quickly can we move a car in and out of a bay, get it fixed and get it given away?
Well, this year's been rough for us as far as throughput, just because the the transition to the new building through a kind of a bigger wrench in in business disruption for us than we anticipated.
So we're not going to give away as many vehicles as we hoped.
Well with with Kathy's vehicle.
The records are all at legacy Ford.
She does Christian brothers over by her work, so those records are intact.
And she actually built that car when she ordered it 11 years ago, built it online, put her deposit, waited the seven weeks to get it and very tickled.
Now she did say she shed a tear a little bit when they were driving away.
So you know, it's the cars, got history with her and it's it's part of her heart.
So we look forward to hearing from you and wanting to know who it was gifted to.
Now, how do you go?
How do you go about Brad?
How do you go about giving a value of the car that you can use on your income tax?
How does that work?
Because we're a charitable organization and the car was gifted to us.
I believe there's no value for the recipient and then the, the person that donated it.
From their standpoint, there is a fair market value for the car that they can use.
Jeff might actually know this better because I've never donated a car either Don Surprisingly, to God's garage.
But but yeah, there's.
There's a fair market value you can find for the vehicle and that's actually what the what the state agencies, the title agencies and the tax assessor.
That's what they use when they assess the car, right.
But what's also neat and I'm pretty sure I have this right because I don't know the details of this part, but what's also neat is the people we give it to don't have to pay that sales tax on it because we got it free.
They got it free.
They don't get it evaluated and then have to pay.
You know like normally if you'd buy a car, especially from out of state, you bring it into state and they're going to assign a value to it.
They're going to look it up and say, okay, you owe us this amount of tax.
I was going to say.
So how do you get it titled?
then we title it as a dealer and then we sell it to them.
But we we basically are just transferring the title to them.
So we have a donation transfer form, that that the Zekin signed, depending on who was on the title, but we have a form that they signed that said they gave it to us and then when we give the car away they don't have to pay that, that sales tax, because it's a gift.
Yeah.
And it's a neat setup.
She indicated that there's a there.
I think God's garage is going to send her an additional form for that particular process of the tax.
Yeah, the 1098C, so you can either tell us you want one or you don't.
We'll send those out.
They're a standard IRS form and they've got rules on how they do that and that's ever changing, so I don't know that.
I would want to try to quote exactly how the valuation works, but.
But that's pretty much what.
What we end up doing.
It's really.
It's really as a kind of a straightforward deal.
If you give somebody a car and they don't pay anything, well, you've already paid all that through the years that you've had the car.
So now I don't, I'm giving it to you.
Here it is, here's the title, I sign it over to you, you take it to the registration place and then go how much?
yeah, how much did you pay for the car?
Nothing.
Okay, we'll sign this form.
And then then I think that you have to.
You have to pay for a registration fee, transfer fee or something.
You have to pay the taxes on it, right, am I correct?
I believe so and I think, in order for them to waive those taxes, they have to have a form from them, from the dealer.
Yeah, that's, the dealer didn't acquire that at any cost.
So it's.
It's because he's a charitable organization.
He can do that.
But you can't go down there and tell them I got this 2001 Corvette that I paid a hundred dollars for.
They're gonna go.
They ain't happening, no more used to we could do that, right?
No, no, they've, they've got.
They'll look it up and they'll get you.
Set you up on a minimum that you're gonna pay if years.
He says with the NAD, a logo right over his shoulder.
So yeah, just just ran into that on One of my granddaughters buying a car and they could.
They questioned how much she paid for it.
She bought it from her other grandfather, you know, like for a thousand bucks.
They didn't like that, but yeah anyway.
So there's that he's heard of organization, so he could do that.
So you are different than other Car.
Donate your car to so-and-so you.
You're different than them, I assume, right?
right and and we are because we want the car, because it's a car.
We don't want the car because it gets turned into cash.
Now that does happen, you know.
So we get in cars we can't fix.
We'll turn them into cash.
But in a case like especially with Jeff's car, that's in such good shape and it's it's a really nice car, it will make somebody a very reliable piece of transportation.
We want the cars because we want to give the cars away.
Now if you hear you know Dancing kids in the street talking about donate your car, those kids are never first off.
You're not gonna give a car to a kid.
They're just gonna take that car, they're gonna salvage it, they're gonna pay everybody's little chunk of, you know, the record fee and all of the transfer fees.
They want the money so they can take the money, go do something else.
We take the cars in that we get from the Houston area and we donate them back to the Houston area to someone, to Single mothers, widows and wives of deployed military.
That's who we're trying to help in the Houston area.
We don't venture outside of our area.
On all of our trucks it says donate your car locally.
On the billboards you might see for us.
It says donate your car locally because you're benefiting Our local community here and I know you have viewers all over.
But I know a lot of us are here in Houston and that's the big thing is we want your car because we want to give that car a next life, with somebody who desperately needs Reliable transportation, because we we know from multiple studies that one of the quickest ways out of a impoverished situation Is reliable transportation, and especially in the Houston area where we don't have, you know, a bus or a train Running everywhere.
Yeah, and those cars that you do sell through auction.
The pros proceeds from that auction sale go to Building, repairing, restoring those cars the next one donating so it's all integrated in the objective of providing cars to Single mothers and and that's what Kathy thought too, because Kathy, kathy was saying the same thing what you just said that you know it needs to go to someone that needs it.
So, and that's why We've- marked.
We have marked your donation.
We actually have a attribute in the system where we put the car.
We have marked that you want to be part of the donation or part of the giveaway.
I'd like to know.
Yeah, we would like that, if that's okay.
Oh, absolutely.
So maybe we actually turn the show, or something.
Yeah, we just we just started that a couple weeks ago, or not a couple weeks ago, maybe six, six to eight months ago.
We started tracking when the donors want to be part of the gifting and my mom actually donated a minivan that my dad drove before he passed away.
She donated it.
They donated it this last year and I don't usually, since, you know, I'm I'm the board chairman, so I'm not there every day and and Justin Coggins does a great job of running our place now but I actually went to that gifting because my mom was there and it was my dad's car and that is the craziest thing You'll ever be involved.
It's just amazing.
Yeah, yeah, I think it's wonderful and, you know, I think that God put us all together to help you guys, help your efforts, and it's it's a feel-good kind of thing for us as well and I know she's listening.
So good job honey.
Yeah, so next weekend, jeff, I may have an update for you.
Oh no, no, take your time.
Yeah, it's all good.
All good, I will see you in San Leon, because I'm sitting in San Leon right now in a motor home, so I'm gonna drive you just keep the motor home down there and we'll use that as a staging area for us.
Right here above me soon as the air conditioner turns on, but I'm gonna.
I'm gonna bring my C7 Grand Sport over to the show.
I don't, I don't know if it'll be part of the show, but I'll put my track wheels on it.
So it looks a little different than a stock car and I would hate to win an award as a stock car after what I heard.
Well, let's see, 88 or older is the is the word man, so then I'll just park it in the parking lot.
No, mike, you could win a prize.
Hey, yeah, what's the prize?
He's 88 or older.
There's that, brad.
It's great to talk to you, my friend.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, thank you guys.
Hey, jeff, thank you very much.
Oh, you're welcome.
Kathy's listening so and again yeah.
And Kathy I'll say, oh, thank you, kathy, that what you did is tremendous and it's gonna make a big difference in someone's life.
So we really hope we can fix it and you can come give them a hug and pray for them.
It'll be awesome.
Well, we love you, man, and we'll talk to you next weekend.
Love you guys, to thank you so much you bet.
It's always make you feel good.
Well, and one of the other things is a guide star platinum transparency awarded in 2022 and 2023 to God's garage, which is kind of an overseer of charitable organizations.
They have given them their platinum transparency award the legitimacy of that actual now.
Go, wanted to do a couple of story.
We got a choice here.
I mean, in fact, let's have some fun for a bit, shall we?
We haven't fun since.
this morning we're talking about that will get us in trouble.
I'm having we drinking.
We could some in the house.
Let's go for some shots.
Heming sold cars.
Roundup 1964, biscayne.
Two door Mmm, it's clean, it looks good and it's got 25,000 and it's got a little bump on the hood 14, meaning that it's probably something underneath that hood.
It kind of looks like it 14 21,000, 21,000.
So highly highly desirable car.
I think so too.
It's in any any kind of shape.
Yeah, oh yeah, it's got a little bump.
Here we go in 1971, chevrolet C 10, what they called a square body.
Square body.
How much you think that that thing would go to it.
It looks like it's got the original paint on it.
It's got those great big ugly mirrors on it.
It looks like it just came right off the farm.
Seven grand 16.
Yeah, I was going to say 15, 13.
Unbelievable.
I just don't understand that we need to score this somehow.
We're just on the winner.
Mars 2005 Dodge Ram pickup truck black.
Looks good.
Wait what was it?
again.
A 2005.
I'm going to say, I'm going to say 7000.
I'm going to say 12.
A dollar.
I'm about 23,620.
Wow.
What year is it?
A 2005 you deep.
No, I'm just thinking.
I saw my son 2006 and for like half price and it was worth.
You got ripped off thousand back then.
Hey, michael is so happy, dad Thanks.
A 1961 Conrad 1961 Chevrolet Apache.
Oh, so tell everybody what's special about an Apache.
Well, it was.
Is that a quad headlight, one Um?
should be 61.
Uh-uh, I don't know.
No, it's not, I don't think so, not in 61.
Well, just that bulbous shape of a truck, I'll say 18,000.
16,8.
You're very close.
Yeah, it's a unique truck because they didn't make the Apache.
I think it's a trim level that they call the Apache.
It's what we call a half ton pickup truck, but I thought that was interesting.
How about a 1988 Chevy Blazer?
Now, this is the old school Blazer with the fiberglass cap on the back of it.
Two doors, uh 25,000.
Yeah, I'm going to go.
Yeah, yeah, 20, I'll say 28.
I'll go.
I'll go 18 again 24,413 dollars, it's yours.
Chevy, yeah, A 50.
I I it brings a smile to my face.
In 1956.
Chrysler Windsor.
Oh, that's the weirdest thing I just said.
One of my one of my workmates said that was his first car.
It was a 56.
I would think I would tell anybody that yeah?
8,000.
I don't know what it looks like $8,000.
Well, you're going to see it.
How about a 77 Chevy L Camino?
No, maybe five, Maybe 11 grand $6,300.
or for those that are into antiques, in 1934 model a, it looks clean.
Obviously it's been restored 8,000 for grand, you say six grand nine thousand dollars.
Oh, if you want to get it.
There you go, a 1934 model a looks pretty good ready.
Car shows that I watch.
1964 Ford Falcon Convertible.
Now, this is the one that's got that, not that ugly body.
I know this is a 64.
Ford Falcon 32,000.
No, no, no, yeah, yeah just it, just Falcon.
It's not a sprint or anything like that All.
I don't know that it all it says, is Ford Falcon.
Yeah, I would say 12.
Okay, 23,000 dollars For Conrad 61 triumph TR3.
So after you get done, running as fast as you can away from that car.
It's sold for 20,407 man, so it came with its own trailer, don't?
know about that.
It didn't have to bring one, Okay, well that's it.
It's feel like your Bob Barker.
You know well, he passed away at at 99 99.
So he actually got under a dollar.
He got the closest to 100 without going over.
Hey, it's time now for a quick break here on the in-wheel time car talk.
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